Chris Sanders

I'm pretty chill as long as I don't get mildly inconvenienced, bored, or hear too many noises at once.

NEWSMAX: CBS and CNN and others are attributing airplane turbulence to higher temperatures and climate change. Has this come across your desk?

LEE ZELDIN: Listen, this is crazy. And it just doesn't pass any smell test for even the average layman in this country.

My dad got dragged to a MENSA meeting by somebody he knew who was a member (they had cheap drinks) and the entire thing was just underemployed reactionary nerds talking about how much better the world would be if they were the dictator. You can just replicate the experience with a Twitter account

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

this made me throw my phone

for those who don’t know, an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is a LEGAL DOCUMENT for students with disabilities and is MANDATED by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

it’s an abhorrent, sickening disservice to a child to use AI for this purpose

A meme from The Wire, of Stringer Bell saying “Is you [making posts] on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”

horrifyingly evergreen:

the fact that reps like espaillat and goldman are doing this is a good sign that mainline and machine dems are waking up to the anger and demands of their voters

In case the whole tariffs thing wasn’t making the racial overtones obvious …

Conservatives are incapable of understanding the truth, and the truth is this:

they are the decadent elite that cause the collapse of the polity that they keep fretting about. it's them, it's always been them.

I did demolition in New Orleans in the months after Katrina. Walked into a ruined house once, months after the storm, to find food still set on the table. Parts of the city lay like that for a year.

The Bush admin was rightly taken to task for its poor response. Awful to see we’re headed back.

It’s depressing watching MAGA take one part of US History after another that I was taught to think was bad (like Japanese internment) & say “but what if that was actually good?” Even more depressing is the fact that so many Americans seem to be unbothered by this because of “the woke” or something.

Wild to call imperial Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor an “invasion” by Japanese American citizens and then try to justify internment camps

It's truly telling that the GOP frequently equates the mere existence of migrants in this country to being a war. Really, really telling.

The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework

A leatherhard white clay pottery mug that reads “I WILL CUT A BITCH” held in my hand over a pottery wheel

I’ll put whatever you want on the mugs: littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1860... #pottery #art #bsnm #ceramics #handmade

The victim-blaming logic for ChatGPT and related “AI” tools has already been established. When the technology puts people in danger, even deadly danger, folks will say it’s the user’s fault for trusting the technology—even as the media, the industry, workplaces and even schools encourage that trust

Migrants Vanish Into Opaque ICE Detention System Frequent long-distance moves leave families and lawyers struggling to keep track of people facing deportation—and undermine their legal defense.

“More than a dozen immigration lawyers across the country... describe a trend where their clients are disappearing into an opaque and labyrinthine system that is obstructing their ability to defend themselves in court.”

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I will stand in Smoothie King locations and knock this out of people's hands.

#birdbot

Amazon tried & tried to get drones working for their deliveries. They had technical failures, safety issues, noise complaints, logistics, public pushback, you name it.

If he thinks *Amazon* couldn't figure out drone deliveries, but Starbucks can, he's out of his mind.

knowing "how the computer works" is quickly going from "advantageous skillset in office job" to "godlike degree of metacognition when navigating reality"

No!!!!!! It's a computer!!!!! You gotta stop thinking like this!!!!!

Republican Gets His Cheeks Clapped at BRUTAL Town Hall Over and Over Again by The Humanist Report

I, uh, must have a different understanding of what getting your cheeks clapped means????

"we will take the people who make your phone unusable by calling 12 times a day and hang them in the town square" would win 70% of the vote

This type of thing is INCREDIBLY common in the evangelical community and a big reason why the govt is focused on blocking child abuse laws around the country.

There’s a whole section on this in @swordsjew.bsky.social book on the evangelical right.

bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

The Illuminati is way lamer than I was lead to believe

USCIS declared that the children of immigrants who are “unlawfully present” will “no longer be US citizens at birth.” They'll inherit their parents' status, rendering them detainable & deportable ...this new underclass of noncitizen babies are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth."

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close